Talks and presentations

PhD Dissertation Defense

March 27, 2026

Research Presentation, AV Williams Building, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA

Gave my PhD Dissertation Defense presentation on my PhD thesis on “Multimodal Behavioral Biomarkers for Schizophrenia: Towards explainable Detection and Severity Estimation” for my dissertation committee which comprised of my Prof. Carol Espy-Wilson (PhD Advisor), Prof. Jonathon Simon,Prof. Shihab Shamma, Prof. Dinesch Manocha, and Prof. William Idsardi (Dean’s Representative).

PhD Proposal Presentation

May 09, 2025

Research Presentation, AV Williams Building, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland, USA

Gave my PhD proposal presentation on my thesis proposal on “Multimodal Behavioral Biomarkers for Schizophrenia: Towards explainable Detection and Severity Estimation” for my dissertation proposal committee which comprised of my Prof. Carol Espy-Wilson (PhD Advisor), Prof. Jonathon Simon, and Prof. Shihab Shamma.

Oral Presentation

April 07, 2025

Conference proceedings talk, SPADE workshop at ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India

Gave an oral presentation on my publication “Speech-Based Estimation of Schizophrenia Severity Using Feature Fusion” in the SPADE workshop at ICASSP 2025.

Invited talk

October 23, 2024

Invited talk, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

Talk on “Speech Inversion system and the assessment of mental health disorders” in the Computational audition class at University of Maryland College Park, MD

Lightning talk

September 05, 2024

Conference proceedings talk, Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece

Gave a Lightning talk on my publication “A Multimodal Framework for the Assessment of the Schizophrenia Spectrum” in the special session on Speech and language in health: from remote monitoring to medical conversations at Interspeech 2024.